Why I like ISC...

"ISC has evolved over 20 years to the only European key event addressing all aspects of High Performance Computing. It is strongly recommended for executives from research, academia and industry who want mangement-style updates in a very professional and compact but also entertaining way."
Dr. Frank Baetke, Global HPC-Technology Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard

Why I like ISC...

"ISC has evolved over 20 years to the only European key event addressing all aspects of High Performance Computing. It is strongly recommended for executives from research, academia and industry who want mangement-style updates in a very professional and compact but also entertaining way."
Dr. Frank Baetke, Global HPC-Technology Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard

Why I like ISC...

"HPC practitioners in academia, government and industry are harnessing advanced computing to push the envelope of science and technology. Every year, ISC brings this dedicated community together to share the insights, celebrate the accomplishments and map out the future."
Kyril Faenov, General Manager HPC, Microsoft Corporation

Why I like ISC...

"Europe is not the continent to produce the majority of supercomputers - its contribution focusses on super algorithms and applications. ISC is the place where both fields merge in Europe and consequently a must for the annual agenda."
Prof. Dr. Frank Behrendt, Berlin Institute of Technology, Department of Energy Engineering

Why I like ISC...

"As a national supercomputing center, we need to update ourselves with recent HPC technology and applications. ISC is the best place for this purpose because every year ISC invites excellent speakers and combines exciting topics and exhibition. It is also reasonable size conference, I love it."
Dr. Sik Lee, Team Leader, KISTI Supercomputing Center, Korea

Why I like ISC...

"ISC provides an ideal mix of focused technical presentations, exhibitor demonstrations, and time to mingle with other participants. Attendance is small enough to have a discussion and diverse enough to get a variety of viewpoints, especially those of the key international HPC players."
Dona Crawford, Associate Director Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Why I like ISC...

"I have been attending ISC since 1987, I remember that being an exciting time for high-performance computing as it is today. The ISC conference has, since its beginning, been a venue for a stimulating program with the leading experts in the HPC area."
Dr. Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee

Why I like ISC...

"ISC offers a platform on which users from science, industry as well as vendors and industry observers have a chance to meet and discuss, unlike almost any other place in the world. As an industry representative, I have gained tremendous value from attending the event."
Dave Turek, Vice President, Deep Computing, IBM

Why I like ISC...

"I often find that I learn more at ISC compared to IEEE/ACM SCxx. The combination of more concentrated technical focus, combined with the great hospitality of the organizers, creates a unique experience. You've got to be there to really understand the draw of the event."
Dr. Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Why I like ISC...

"I like ISC because this is where HPC Europe meets the world. ISC is the place to discuss cross-Atlantic issues and keep in touch with Asia. I like its unique atmosphere of work and recreation. ISC is where scientists meet to enjoy discussions and build communities."
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Resch, Director, HLRS Stuttgart

Why I like ISC...

"ISC is the most important HPC event in Europe. ISC combines scientific and technical issues in an unique way, and makes this event most productive and enjoyable."
Dr. Andreas Adelmann, Staff Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)

Why I like ISC...

"I attended ISC'07 for the first time and it was a good decision. As a developing center, CHPC benefited greatly from the Hot-Seat session, where technology manufacturers were grilled. This session makes it easy for new entrants into HPC to understand the dynamics and technicalities on deciding on technologies to implement."
Dr. Happy Sithole, Director, CHPC, South Africa

Why I like ISC...

"For Cray, the ISC conference in June is a great event. ISC is a 'must attend' event, with an atmosphere more intimate and conducive to useful dialogues than larger HPC conferences in the U.S. ISC combines excellent organization, attractive suroundings, an exciting agenda and an uncompromised commitment to HPC."
Dr. Ulla Thiel, Vice President Europe, Cray

Why I like ISC...

"ISC has always been my favorite. The continuously highest international quality, the great selection of world-class speakers, the ideal mix of high-level research, business and industry talks, and Hans Meuer's unique gift to maintain a familiar atmosphere make this a unique conference and a 'must participate'!"
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, EU Project DEISA

Why I like ISC...

"ISC has established itself as the key European HPC event while maintaining a technically focused atmosphere. We look forward to Intel's continued association with ISC for many years to come."
Stephan Gillich, HPC Marketing Manager EMEA, Intel

I. Opening Session

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lecture Hall, Level 1


ABOUT THIS SESSION

Chair: Prof. Dr. Hans Meuer, ISC'08 General Chair, Prometeus & University of Mannheim, Germany

Since 1986, each ISC Conference has been opened with the traditional Opening Session. This year’s highlights of this Session are the ISC’08 keynote talk and the presentation of the 31st TOP500 list.

As early as one year before the Conference starts, we begin looking for the ideal person - a distinguished visionary leader from Europe, the U.S. or Asia - to hold the ISC keynote talk. In the past, we managed to win Gene Amdahl, Gordon Bell, David Burridge, Sidney Fernbach and Leonhard Kleinrock as keynote speakers, just to name a few. This year, we are pleased to welcome as keynote speaker Prof. Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Japan. His talk is without any doubt a visionary one: “Everybody Supercomputes in the Next Generation Cyber-Science Infrastructure".

We are also curious to hear what the 31st TOP500 list will reveal. Since the beginning of the TOP500 project in 1993, the June edition of the TOP500 list with the fastest supercomputers in the world has been published at the International Supercomputing Conferences, ISC, in Germany. At ISC’08, we are curious to see whether the first Petaflop/s system will have made it into the TOP500. One of the hot candidates certainly is IBM’s Roadrunner at LANL in Los Alamos, USA. Currently, the number one position is held by BLueGene/L eServer at DOE/NNSA/LLNL, USA, with a best Linpack performance of 478.2 Teraflop/s.

For the traditional ISC Award, the ISC Award Committee selects the best two papers from all papers accepted for the Scientific Sessions on June 17. The Scientific Program Committee decides on which submitted papers are accepted for the Scientific Sessions. The ISC’08 Awards will be sponsored by Intel®: The two award winners will each receive a high end workstation based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor or Intel® Core™2 Quad processor.

It will be the first time that the PRACE Award will be presented at the Opening Session. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will award a prize to the best scientific paper by a European student or young scientist. The ISC Award Committee, too, selects the candidate for the PRACE Award, who will receive a PRACE sponsorship for the participation in a conference relevant to petascale computing.

 

SPEAKERS IN THIS SESSION


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